Americans are experiencing sticker shock and it is about to get a whole lot worse thanks to Obama. Between gas and groceries, our household is sinking fast. My husband works about 35 miles from here, so gas is an issue. For a household of three, where two drive for work, our gas bill this month will be close to $900. Groceries will come in at a modest $1000 since we have cut back. And folks, we live in a state that has reasonable pricing. Inflation is just clearing her throat and getting ready to sing, so this is going to get very, very disturbing.

They aren't hidden per se....they're called EBTs, those non-stigmatizing little electronic benefit transaction cards low lifes like to pretend are real credit cards.

They're called WICs certificates that 'moms' use to buy bread, milk, butter and eggs for their chilren. Only I don't see much of that in the WallyMart nowdays.

They're called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) - the new Welfare, now with NO work requirement per Obama's redefinition of what real work is.

They're called Section 8. You get your crib for 25% of your "spendable" income with the income part not including assistance dollars credited to your ubiquitous EBT account.

They're called SSI and SSDI for those unluckies who've had more than 99 weeks of bad luck finding ANY job (at least one that they'd deign to take)

They're called EITC -----"EARNED" (an insult to taxpayers) Income Tax Credit ---- money you get back you never paid in. THOUSANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They're called Advanced EITC.....you can make your employer give you the prorated amount you'd receive from the above..he's responsible for the "float" until he files his taxes.

They're called Church Food Banks. Here in Georgia the Methodists are the most gullible....you can go there after you've pissed away your EBT cash on whatever, used your WICs and all the rest and you really need some food...they're good for a hit weekly....

Half our country have been hooked on this crap...they're becoming accustomed to sloth, laziness, leeching and getting more defiant about how they deserve a free load......

I find it depressing that the article is about the very real problem of inflation, that this very real thing is remaining hidden and "not talked about" in official circles, and is likely to get much, much worse.

And about 90% of the comments here are scoffing at the woman's poor shopping habits.

Well, you’re right. And she does not live in a mansion—it’s just a modest little rancher on a cul-de-sac without much room for a serious garden, much less room for chickens, goats, fruit trees, and other things that cut the food bill. Inflation is a serious problem, and I’d be in real trouble if my son couldn’t go out and hunt his own game.

And about 90% of the comments here are scoffing at the woman's poor shopping habits.

It's not her shopping habits that are the issue. It's her disconnect. Trying to demonstrate hardship while spending, after cutting back, $12000 a year on food doesn't help her point. In fact, it decries her point.

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posted on 09/24/2012 12:42:09 PM PDT
by raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)

Okay. Let's play it that way. Obama's policies are not a serious problem. A mere bump in the road, you might say.

The real problem is that people do not know how to handle the money in their pocket. As Bill Clinton said, the government could give you more, but "you'd probably waste it". No, the solution is for government to have more say in how money is spent. Specifically on food. Government control would cut our grocery bills, and help us to be healthier and less obese. Yay!

I spend about 660.00 a month for a family of 4, and we have a bunch of those food wholesale type grocery stores... Winco, FoodMax, Foods Co, it makes alot of difference. Granted a portion of this amount goes towards vitamins and alternative “medicine”.

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posted on 09/24/2012 12:56:34 PM PDT
by diamond6
(Freerepublic.com and Hillbuzz.org are my go to sites for conservative news.)

I spend about 660.00 a month for a family of 4, and we have a bunch of those food wholesale type grocery stores... Winco, FoodMax, Foods Co, it makes a big difference. Granted a portion of this amount goes towards vitamins and alternative “medicine”.

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posted on 09/24/2012 12:56:54 PM PDT
by diamond6
(Freerepublic.com and Hillbuzz.org are my go to sites for conservative news.)

My wife informed me she had saved up some cash for my birthday hinting she was going to get me something expensive. (I am always joking about her getting me a 58 Gibson Les Paul Gold top).

So she asked me what expensive present I wanted for my Birthday and I told her, "How about a bag of groceries?" She didn't laugh. See I've been showing her what's coming down the pike as far as food and gas prices go. The clincher was when I had her watch "End of the Road".

0bama’s policies ARE a serious problem. But you are not going to get much sympathy that someone has “cut back” to spending $1,000 per month at the grocery store for a family of 3, even if it includes all of the non-food incidentals. Using this example takes any credibility away from the point of the article.

We have 3 adults in our household, rarely eat out even lunches, and we do not spend more than $500 in a bad month at the grocery store. IMHO it is not a good article to condemn 0bama’s policies and the inflation, which is very REAL, that we are enduring.

My focus is on the damage being done by Obama. Criticizing someone's grocery bill is not on my radar.

Obama is exacerbating damage that is mostly self-inflicted.

Obama didn't create the mortgage crisis. He is merely encouraging victimhood. Those people who bought houses they could afford, made their payments on time and paid them off are the ones who look like chumps now.

Obama didn't create the credit card crisis either. He is merely capitilizing on the crisis by calling people who overspent the good guys, and those people are all too happy to agree with him. The folks who don't ever pay interest because they pay off all of their bills on time are the ones who are called deadbeats.

Obama didn't create the student loan crisis. He is just telling the people who paid a lot of money for the privelege of ending up with no marketable skills what they want to hear. The folks who worked their way through college or paid off their loans are quickly becoming an oddity and will be considered stupid for not cashing in on their victimhood.

Now people who scrape, save and cut corners to feed their families on a modest budget are being compared to heartless people blaming rape victims for somehow bring the rape upon themselves. Do you see any sort of a pattern here?

We all live on a budget. Yeah I used to eat more steak and fresh seafood and eat out more often. So now I have scaled back, in other words not living as well as I used to.

The point here is not that she has not adapted to the increase in food prices but that she has to adapt to higher prices.

Want to know what the real tragedy is? When I go to the market and I see an old person or a homemaker with a couple of kids in tow with just a couple of store brand items in their cart pick a piece of fruit or a tomato look at the price and put it back.

No one is starving, pasta and Velveeta will fill you up but it’s not what I call living.

People like to brag about being thrifty but methinks that the puffery will change into a whine as more get pushed to the margin

I just came back from the grocery store. Paid $7 and change for a jar of Jif peanut butter and $2.19 for a can - one can, regular size, not large - of Campbell’s vegetable soup. A 2-pound bag of frozen mixed vegetables was $4.99. (!!) With these prices, I could see how a family of 3 could spend $1000/month on groceries.

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posted on 09/24/2012 1:50:04 PM PDT
by Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)

The significance is not in her level of spending for food. it is in the increase of spending for the diet to which she is accustomed. That translates to my food bill inexorably rising with smaller numbers but it is significant to everyone.

Oh my God...I grew up poor and I know I now have cooking skills and grocery buying instincts that I never would have had otherwise.
Jif is not food. When you buy stuff at the grocery you have to look at the ingredients first and know what is in there that your body might react to negatively. Like soy oil or sugar. Look at the labels before you buy cheap food, please.
I’m sorry I’m not trying to be judgemental, just saying that you could buy Adams peanut butter and it would be real. It would cost more than fake Jif but you might want to invest in other organic foods as well which our government hasn’t yet made poison...but Jif is poison, pure and simple.
So there is a difference in your budget if you want to stuff supposedly edible foods in your body for cheap cheap cheap or if you want to feed it properly, which will cost a bit more.
BUT you can learn to make foods which are nutritious and will last a long time. If you want to invest a bit of time and learning and extra money in your future.
Research nourishing food if you’re interested and if you plan enough you can create many meals with your bucks which will nourish your body more than the peanut butter you are now espousing as food.

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